The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
ABBREVIATIONS

1 / The Historiography of the Society of Jesus: Where Does It Stand Today?
JOHN W. O'MALLEY, S.J.

2 / 'Le style jésuite n'existe pas': Jesuit Corporate Culture and the Visual Arts
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY

3 / The Fertility and the Shortcomings of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Jesuit Case
MARC FUMAROLI

4 / The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science
RIVKA FELDHAY

PART TWO
The Roman Scene

5 / Two Farnese Cardinals and the Question of Jesuit Taste
CLARE ROBERTSON

6 / Jesuit Thesis Prints and the Festive Academic Defence at the Collegio Romano
LOUISE RICE

7 / From The Eyes of All' to 'Usefull Quarries in phihlosophy and good literature': Consuming Jesuit Science, 1600-1665
MICHAEL JOHN GORMAN

8 / Music History in the Musurgia univer-salts of Athanasius Kircher
MARGARET MURATA

PART THREE
Mobility: Overseas Missions and the Circulation of Culture

9 / Mapping Jesuit Science: The Role of Travel in the Geography of Knowledge
STEVEN J. HARRIS

10 / Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences
FLORENCE HSIA

11 / Exemplo aeque ut verbo: The French Jesuits' Missionary World
DOMINIQUE DESLANDRES

12 / East and West: Jesuit Art and Artists in Central Europe, and Central European Art in the Americas
THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN

13 / The Role of the Jesuits in the Transfer of Secular Baroque Culture to the Río de la Plata Region
MAGNUS MöRNER

14 / Candide and a Boat
T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J.

PART FOUR
Encounters with the Other: Between Assimilation and Domination

15 / Alessandro Valignano: The Jesuits and Culture in the East
ANDREW C. ROSS

16 / Jesuit Corporate Culture As Shaped by the Chinese
NICOLAS STANDAERT, S.J.

17 /Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature
QIONG ZHANG

18 / The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India
GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY

19 / Roberto de Nobili's Dialogue on Eternal Life and an Early Jesuit Evaluation of Religion in South India
FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.

20 / The Jesuits and the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines
REN£ B. JAVELLANA, S.J.

PART FIVE
Tradition, Innovation, Accommodation

21 / Bernini's Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch
IRVING LAVIN

22 / Innovation and Assimilation: The Jesuit Contribution to Architectural Development in Portuguese India
DAVID M. KOWAL

23 / God's Good Taste: The Jesuit Aesthetics of Juan Bautista Villalpando in the Sixth and Tenth Centuries B.C.E.
JAIME LARA

24 / Jesuit Aristotelian Education: The De anima Commentaries
ALISON SIMMONS

25 / Jesuit Physics in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Some Important Continuities
MARCUS HELLYER

26 / The Jesuits and Polish Sarmatianism
STANISLAW OBIREK, S.J.

PART SIX
Conversion and Confirmation through Devotion and the Arts

27 / The Art of Salvation in Bavaria
JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH

28 / Henry Hawkins: A Jesuit Writer and Emblematist in Stuart England
KARL JOSEF HOLTGEN

29 / Jesuit Casuistry or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity
JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J.

30 / The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
PAULO CASTAGNA

31 /The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1621: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual, and Spectacle
WILLIAM J. SUMMERS

32 / Jesuit Devotions and Retablos in New Spain
CLARA BARGELLINI

PART SEVEN
Reflections: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go from Here?

JOSEPH CONNORS

LUCE GIARD

MICHAEL J. BUCKLEY, S.J.

INDEX